What Makes People Share Information?
We’re starting another research study this week. We’re interviewing 8 users in their homes, for 90 minutes each, to understand how people define their online life. It’s purposely broad as … Read more
Keren Solomon on Deprivation Studies
I asked Keren Solomon to come give a talk on how to run deprivation studies. Deprivation studies are a user research technique where you take something away from someone that … Read more
Meet Cori Schauer – our newest researcher
Cori is a senior user experience researcher at Mozilla. She has 13 years of experience working for various clients and sectors. Prior to Mozilla, Cori was an ethnographer for the … Read more
Browsers AND Apps
We recently completed some interesting research on mobile browsers and apps. We asked 12 people in the Bay Area to tell us when, how, and why they are using browsers … Read more
Erin Liman on Designing for Delight
Erin Liman, a design thinker and innovation catalyst, came to speak to Mozilla last week about Designing for Delight. She taught us some tools for solving the right problem such … Read more
How one 9 year old uses an iPad
This Christmas, my 9 and 6 year-old cousins each got an iPod Touch. Small computing devices aren’t new to them — they’ve spent the last 6 months playing Angry Birds … Read more
Mobile Heatmap Results
It’s time to share the results of the Test Pilot Mobile Heatmap study launched last month. My thanks to all the mobile Firefox users who submitted data! I’d also like … Read more
Why not add pleasurability testing into our usability tests?
I just finished reading Aarron Walter’s book entitled Designing for Emotion. Aarron’s the lead user experience designer for MailChimp. The book, published by A Book Apart, is a fast and … Read more
Say Hello to the first Mobile Test Pilot study
After many months of development and testing, I’m pleased to announce that we have finally released the first version of Test Pilot for mobile Firefox. This add-on will let users … Read more